Can a computer beat a human being in a game designed for humans? American TV viewers will soon find out. Two of the most successful contestants ever to appear on the Jeopardy! game show – Ken Jennings ...

Question in the form of an answer: This music is from a hugely popular television game show. Answer, in the form of a question: What is jeopardy? We play the music in honor of the news that IBM is ...

IBM will pit one of its computers against past champions of the "Jeopardy!" quiz show, more than a decade after another of its computers defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. "Watson," as the ...

Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter competing against IBM Watson at a press conference at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on January 13, 2011, in Yorktown Heights, New York - Ben Hider/Getty Images At ...

Before he was the host of Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings set a record for most consecutive games won on the game show, lasting 74 games in 2004. Jennings also won the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time ...

IBM has created a computer that they claim can compete against humans playing “Jeopardy!” Watson has an advanced QA (question answer) system that has been in development for 2 years. Because many of ...

If only there were extra points for good sportsmanship. Ken Jennings, the “Jeopardy!” wunderkund who once won 74 games in a row on ABC’s long-running trivia show, bowed out gracefully with a "Simpsons ...

When he was mowing down opponents en route to a record of 74 wins in a row on the game show "Jeopardy!", Ken Jennings often seemed more machine than man. Now television viewers can see him going up ...

It's man versus machine on Jeopardy!, as two of the game show's most successful players compete against an IBM supercomputer four years in the making. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter will take on the IBM ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter competing against IBM Watson at a press conference at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on January ...